LLMs stay narrow task-focused optimizers that don't want to hack the world
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-27
In an AI safety thread, teortaxesTex offers a relatively optimistic take: LLMs are nothing like Yudkowsky's nightmare — despite substantial generality, they remain narrow optimization processes committed to their task. They don't want to hack the world, even though they could.
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